Sunday, October 9, 2016

Here's how Snapchat's new Spectacles will work and other top stories.

  • Here's how Snapchat's new Spectacles will work

    Here's how Snapchat's new Spectacles will work
    The company formerly known as Snapchat surprised the world last night by unveiling Spectacles, its first hardware product. The sunglasses, which record videos in 10-second increments, are expected to be available for sale sometime "soon." Snap Inc., as the company is now called, says it will be producing the glasses in small quantities. There are still lots of questions about how Spectacles will work — but thanks to some new information from the company, we can now answer some basic questions. ..
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  • Developers Ditch Oculus Over Luckey's Pro-Trump Memes (Updated)

    Developers Ditch Oculus Over Luckey's Pro-Trump Memes (Updated)
    UPDATE 11:31 p.m. ET: We've updated this story with a statement from Palmer Luckey, after updating the story earlier with more comments from developers.Palmer Luckey, the 24-year old founder of VR company Oculus, has been secretly financing an unofficial, Pro-Donald Trump group dedicated to posting memes and putting together viral stunts in an attempt to disparage Hillary Clinton.Small developers have taken notice of the news, originally reported by The Daily Beast, and are threatening to remove..
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  • Why Salesforce might be interested in Twitter

    Why Salesforce might be interested in Twitter
    Rumors were flying all day yesterday that Twitter is up for sale, and Salesforce.com could be a chief suitor. At this point, with so many possible bidders being reported, it’s hard to know what’s going to happen (if anything). But the big question for many is why Salesforce would even be interested in the consumer-facing social network. While nobody could say with certainty that the deal would happen, most of the industry experts we spoke to believe that if Salesforce were to win this deal, Tw..
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  • China begins operating world's largest radio telescope

    China begins operating world's largest radio telescope
    BEIJING -- The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in space and its pursuit of international scientific prestige. Beijing has poured billions into such ambitious scientific projects as well as its military-backed space program, including its second space station earlier this month. Measuring 500 meters in diameter, the radio telescope is nestled within a..
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  • Mystery solved: Melatonin makes these fish sing at night

    Mystery solved: Melatonin makes these fish sing at night
    Nation/World Mystery solved: Melatonin makes these fish sing at night Author: Rachel Feltman, The Washington Post Updated: 4 hours ago Published 4 hours ago Porichthys notatus, also known as the plainfin midshipman fish (U.S. Geological Survey)
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  • Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list - Winston

    Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list - Winston
    PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal wildlife officials have made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumblebee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent of its historic range in just the past 20 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made the recommendation Thursday after the Xerces Society, based in Portland, Ore., petitioned the agency on behalf of the bee in 2013 and presented studies showing that it was struggling because of a combination of disease, ..
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  • Chromebooks now have an easy time running Android apps

    Chromebooks now have an easy time running Android apps
    The stable version of Chrome OS includes Google Play Store access if you're using the right PC. You no longer have to be an early adopter to run Android apps on a Chromebook. Google has released a stable version of Chrome OS that includes Google Play Store access in beta, giving you the opportunity to run mobile apps on top of your usual web access. You'll have to own an Acer Chromebook R11 or an ASUS Chromebook Flip to give this update a shot, but it beats having to run a Chrome OS beta just..
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  • Mojang will release Minecraft Boss Update with Add-Ons on October 18

    Mojang will release Minecraft Boss Update with Add-Ons on October 18
    At the Minecon conference in Anaheim California, Mojang, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind Minecraft, announced today that on October 18 it will release the Boss Update for Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android and iOS and Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta. The update is notable because it includes Add-Ons, a new way for players to customize the appearance of animals and mobs by tinkering with JSON. Mojang first unveiled the Boss Update with Add-Ons at the E3 event in June. “They let you..
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